The only way you're going to get truly human sounding voices is when a human records them. Any text to speech voice is going to require some tweaking to sound human. The AT&T voices may have been a bad example, I'm sure there are better ones out there. Download a demo of cepstral and play with the voices. They can be made to sound pretty good.
Josh Patten Assistant Network Administrator Brazos County IT Dept. (979) 361-4676 On 4/20/2010 8:45 AM, Francis Tinio wrote: > those are computer voices similar to AT&T's natural voices right? How do > they compare to an actual voice over of a real person? I've heard demos of > the AT&T and at time it sounded robotic. > > > On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Josh Patten wrote: > > >> In my experience people are VERY turned off by the free ones, such as >> those provided by festival and eSpeak. I even went to all the trouble of >> installing . We are planning to purchase cepstral voices for both >> english and spanish. Though they aren't the best voices available, they >> are much less expensive than something like AT&T natural voices. The >> redistribution license (note this is different from a concurrency >> license) and 3 voices costs something like $290 and the nice thing about >> cepstral is it supports SSML: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/ so >> you can easily control how the voice sounds. I even went to all the >> trouble of installing HTS voices: >> http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/?Voice%20Demos with Festival and still could >> not get it to sound human because of the intonation issues with >> Festival. eSpeak has a much better intonation engine but the voices >> sound stifled and robotic and the HTS voices only work with Festival. >> >> Josh Patten >> Assistant Network Administrator >> Brazos County IT Dept. >> (979) 361-4676 >> >> >> On 4/20/2010 8:22 AM, Francis Tinio wrote: >> >>> Hey. >>> >>> Just want some feedback on which company you guys use for IVR recordings? >>> We currently have a live attendant configured but would be changing to IVR >>> soon. Anyone care to share their thoughts on this? >>> >>> You use free IVR responses voice overs or professional paid? >>> >>> Thanks >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org >>> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users >>> Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users >>> sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org >> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users >> Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users >> sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
